Great Moments in ’80s Fashion: Pat Benatar’s “Love Is a Battlefield” Video

For those of you too young to remember the Hiroshima-like impact this video had on EVERY QUEEN IN AMERICA, let me bring up to speed: Pat Benatar, who was NOT young but played a troubled teenager because why not, it was the ’80s, runs away to LA where she joins a group of post-apocalyptic hookers wearing amaaaaaaaaazing Katherine Hamnett rag dresses, and together they do a kooky sort of tribal dance that involves a lot of stomping and shimmying – and trust me: It was LIFE-CHANGING. Every little budding fashionista tried making their own rag skirt, with varying degrees of success. OR, if you were a boy, you tied a few scarves to the belt loops of your pants and were MERCILESSLY TAUNTED for it at school, omg. But you didn’t care. You knew that you were COMPLETELY ON TREND, and these backwater hillbillies wouldn’t know fashion if it punched them in the face. Good times. “WE ARE STRONG! NO ONE CAN TELL US WE’RE WRONG!”